ICRC expulsion from the Ogaden

The Ethiopian government has now graduated from expelling election observers and journalists to expelling the Red Cross. Why? Because they bear witness to its brutal and inhumane strategy of “starving out the enemy.” The TPLF’s conviction to sink lower at every opportunity would have been amusing if its consequences were not so dire for the Ethiopian people.

It seems at every turn the TPLF is copying from the Dergue play book.

Dagmawi writes:

Who could have imagined that what the Derg did in 1984 would be repeated again 23 years later. Lets have a great Millenium party in Addis Ababa while thousands of Ogadeni-Ethiopians huddle on the bare ground starving to death!

Redeem Ethiopia recently wrote:

Distracting Ethiopians and the international community with large expensive and year-long Millennium parties is now crucial. Mengistu attempted such a distraction with a large celebration of the tenth anniversary of the revolution ... Is Meles so inspired by Mengistu’s old strategies that he will do the same?

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